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That’s rich! Millionaire Macron says he’d be a Yellow Vest for a higher salary
Protesters in France finally have the sympathies of multi-millionaire Emmanuel Macron. The leader nicknamed “President of the Rich” says he could be a Yellow Vest too, if it means getting paid more.On Thursday, Macron, a man who reportedly earned millions as an investment banker and has recently been making televised statements to the poorest citizens from rooms dripping with gold.
rt.com/news/450303-macron-i-am-yellow-vest/

‘It smells dirty’: scandals loom over Bolsonaro after first month in office
Pietro Sambugaro wept with joy when the far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro was confirmed as president of the world’s fourth-largest democracy. A month into Bolsonaro’s reign, he remains on cloud nine.“The mood is of immeasurable satisfaction,” the diehard 28-year-old bolsonarista gushed this week.
theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/01/it-smells-dirty-scandals-loom-over-bolsonaro-after-first-month-in-office

Forty years since revolution, Iran taunts 'declining' America
Forty years after its revolution, Iran has no fear of a “declining” America, a senior cleric said on Friday at the start of official commemorations of the uprising that made the country a permanent enemy of the United States.
reuters.com/article/us-iran-revolution-anniversary-cleric/forty-years-since-revolution-iran-taunts-declining-america-idUSKCN1PQ4MQ

Footage shows police pointing assault rifles at child detainees in Australia
Last month, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) released previously suppressed CCTV footage documenting the aggressive response of guards and police officers to a disturbance at the Northern Territory’s Don Dale Juvenile Detention Centre last November.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/01/dale-f01.html

Blackwater founder's Hong Kong firm signs Xinjiang training camp deal
A Hong Kong-listed security firm founded by Erik Prince has signed a preliminary deal with authorities in China to build a training centre in Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims have experienced a huge security crackdown.Frontier Services Group, which specialises in providing security and logistics for businesses operating in risky regions, said it had signed a deal to run a training base in the city of Kashgar.
theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/01/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-to-build-training-camp-in-chinas-xinjiang

Crickets strike again? Canada to halve diplomatic staff at Cuba embassy over 'mysterious illness'
Ottawa is considering slashing its embassy staff in Havana by half after a new case of a diplomat suffering from a mysterious ailment causing dizziness, nausea and possible ear damage was reported on Wednesday.The unidentified diplomat has become the 14th person in Canada's Cuban embassy to fall victim to the illness, the origins of which are still shrouded in mystery.
rt.com/news/450202-canada-halves-staff-cuba/

U.S. Announces It Will Withdraw From Nuclear Arms Control Treaty With Russia.
The Trump administration announced Friday that the United States will formally begin the process of withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the Cold War-era arms control accord with Russia.The declaration by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had been expected for months.
npr.org/2019/02/01/690632548/u-s-announces-it-will-withdraw-from-nuclear-arms-control-treaty-with-russia

Uber services suspended in Barcelona
Ride-hailing company Uber says it has suspended its services in the Spanish city of Barcelona because of new regulations.The decision comes after the Catalan government insisted on imposing a 15-minute delay before passengers could be picked up.Uber has been the target of protests by taxi drivers in Barcelona who say their business is being undermined.
bbc.com/news/business-47071710

Bangkok flies drones as PM warns of costs in pollution fight
A fleet of drones, trucks and small planes sprayed water to try to reduce air pollution around Bangkok on Thursday while the city’s governor invited critics to brainstorm better ideas to improve the air quality in the Thai capital.
apnews.com/77d1e355d6714bb0b47f66d560f119f9

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A free trade agreement between Japan and the EU entered into force on February 1, covering 635 million people and almost one-third of the world's economy.

Dubbed the world's largest free trade agreement, the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement removes duties on almost all agricultural and industrial products and opens up the service sector and procurement. It also moves to eliminate non-tariff barriers to trade.

The highlights of the deal

Japan will have scrappped duties on 97 percent of goods imported from the EU once the agreement is fully implemented.
Open access to the Japanese market will save EU companies from paying €1 billion ($1.14 billion) of duties annually.
The EU will eliminate tariffs on 99 percent of imports from Japan.
In the automotive sector, the EU will eliminate duties over a seven-year transition period.
Both sides will eliminate duties on nearly all food and agricultural products.
The service market will be opened, including financial services, e-commerce, telecommunications and transport.
For the first time, the trade agreement includes countries' Paris climate deal commitments.
The text also addresses sustainable development and sets standards for labor, safety, environmental and consumer protection.
'Protecting brand names'

GERMANY AND JAPAN GONNA GET REVENGE ON ALL OF YOU

Axis Powers 2: Electric Nukaloo

Voting Against McConnell Amendment, Sanders Says 'American People Do Not Want Endless War'
As 25 Democrats voted with the GOP on Thursday to pass Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) resolution condemning President Donald Trump's troop withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) dissented from the bipartisan commitment to "fueling forever wars" and argued that Congress must work to end overseas conflicts instead of inventing "more reasons to continue them."
commondreams.org/news/2019/02/01/voting-against-mcconnell-amendment-sanders-says-american-people-do-not-want-endless

Cory Booker Makes It Official: He's Running For President In 2020
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey is the latest Democrat to enter the increasingly crowded race for the White House, making the initial announcement with a message of unity."We are better when we help each other," Booker says in a video message.
npr.org/2019/02/01/676578945/cory-booker-makes-it-official-hes-running-for-president-in-2020

West Virginia teachers angered over renewed attack on public education
In an extraordinary parliamentary session, members of the West Virginia state legislature are attempting to fast-track a “Comprehensive Education Reform” bill that would further eviscerate public education in the state. The debate takes place almost exactly one year after the nine-day strike that galvanized teachers across the US but failed to fix the decades-long defunding of education and public sector health care in the state.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/01/west-f01.html

U.S. FCC faces tough questions from court on net neutrality repeal
A federal appeals court asked pointed questions of the Federal Communication Commission on Friday in hearing a challenge to whether the Trump administration acted legally when it repealed landmark net neutrality rules governing internet providers in December 2017.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet/u-s-appeals-court-hears-challenge-to-fcc-net-neutrality-repeal-idUSKCN1PQ5CA

San Francisco: court blocks health warnings on soda ads
A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a San Francisco law requiring health warnings on advertisements for soda and other sugary drinks. The ruling is a victory for beverage and retail groups that sued to block the ordinance.The law violates constitutionally protected commercial speech, the ninth US circuit court of appeals said in a unanimous ruling.
theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/31/san-francisco-soda-health-warning-law-blocked-appeals-court

Lawsuit Details How The Sackler Family Allegedly Built An OxyContin Fortune
he first nine months of 2013 started off as a banner year for the Sackler family, owners of the pharmaceutical company that produces OxyContin, the addictive opioid pain medication.Purdue Pharma paid the family $400 million from its profits during that time, claims a lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts attorney general.
npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/01/690556552/lawsuit-details-how-the-sackler-family-allegedly-built-an-oxycontin-fortune

EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone
A free trade agreement between Japan and the EU entered into force on February 1, covering 635 million people and almost one-third of the world's economy.Dubbed the world's largest free trade agreement, the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement removes duties on almost all agricultural and industrial products and opens up the service sector and procurement. It also moves to eliminate non-tariff barriers to trade.
dw.com/en/eu-and-japan-create-worlds-biggest-free-trade-zone/a-47319521

How long before the Dengoids show up saying that true socialism is when you hire american porkies to set up mercenary camps in your country?

OP/ED

Rubber-Bullet Liberalism
Since November 17 the gilets jaunes movement has been spreading across France. Protesters from all around the country are demanding fairer taxes, wealth redistribution, and more direct democracy, with demonstrations in multiple cities every Saturday. According to polls, the movement is supported by a majority of the population.So far, the government’s response to all this has essentially been repressive, More than 1,700 people have been injured, of which at least eighty-two are seriously hurt, and ten fatalities have been confirmed since the beginning of the movement.(A constantly updated list can be found here).The deaths mainly owed to road accidents, where angry drivers, blocked in their cars, drove over protesters. But one was caused by the use of police weapons: an eighty-year-old woman in Marseille was closing the shutters of her apartment when a tear-gas grenade hit her in the face. As of January 8, 5,339 people had been arrested, of which 1,234 were released with no further action. The following Saturday (January 12) eighty thousand police officers were deployed against fifty thousand protesters (official numbers).The protests have also been marked by numerous cases of deliberate violence against protesters. These abuses owe not only isolated “violent” policemen but are in fact part of an overall strategy for “maintaining order” in the face of the gilets jaunes. In turn, they show how the monarchical presidential office serves to empower the tools of repression.
jakkkobinmag.com/2019/02/gilets-jaunes-police-repression-macron

A Liberal Elite Still Luring Us Towards the Abyss
A group of 30 respected intellectuals, writers and historians has published a manifesto bewailing the imminent collapse of Europe and its supposed Enlightenment values of liberalism and rationalism. The idea of Europe, they warn, “is falling apart before our eyes”, as Britain prepares for Brexit and “populist and nationalist” parties look poised to make sweeping gains in elections across the continent.The short manifesto has been published in the liberal elite’s European house journals, newspapers such as the Guardian. “We must now fight for the idea of Europe or perish beneath the waves of populism,” their document reads. Failure means “resentment, hatred and their cortege of sad passions will surround and submerge us.”Unless the tide can be turned, elections across the European Union will be “the most calamitous that we have ever known: victory for the wreckers; disgrace for those who still believe in the legacy of Erasmus, Dante, Goethe, and Comenius; disdain for intelligence and culture; explosions of xenophobia and antisemitism; disaster”.
counterpunch.org/2019/02/01/a-liberal-elite-still-luring-us-towards-the-abyss/

Vanity Fair: A new television adaptation of the great 19th century novel
“But we are bound to stick closely, above all, by THE TRUTH—the truth, though it be not particularly pleasant to read of or to tell.”— Catherine: A Story (1839–40), William Makepeace ThackerayA seven-part series based on William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel, Vanity Fair, was broadcast in the UK in September and October, and released in the US on December 21. It was distributed by ITV in Britain and Amazon Video in the US.Vanity Fair, published in 1848, is one of the great novels of the 19th century. Thackeray (1811–1863) set his work during and after the Napoleonic Wars, with the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815 playing a role in the events.It follows, over the course of two decades or so, a group of characters—Becky Sharp (“Sharp by name, and sharp, I fear, by nature,” as someone in the series suggests), a young woman from a poor family who survives by her wits and charms; her friend, then rival … and then friend again, the naïve Amelia Sedley; Amelia’s husband George Osborne and her adoring lover from a distance for much of the book, William Dobbin; and Becky’s spouse Rawdon Crawley, and their respective families, lovers and friends.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/01/vani-f01.html

war is taunting us

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This is bad. I truly think that the contradictions of Dengoid ideology are becoming so apparent that blatant right-wing nationalism is the only way the CPC can hold onto their ideological legitimacy.

In b4 crypto poltards talking about Muh Muslims deserved it Muh terrorism - listen to yourself and realize how dumb you sound.

I will still support Xi if he finally nukes the US though

Real Socialism is when k*Rds use American Porkies.

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A) Did that not turn out to be fake?
B) They were hiring medics and doctors, not combat soldiers.